The New and Improved Boxing on TV thread!

My local shows everything now so I don’t spend a penny apart from the 4 pints and some crisps while watching

It’s one of those pubs where it could kick off any second, I love the edgyness of it all, proper rough old scummy boozer full of geezers doing sniff in the bogs

Love it!

 

I was thinking the same thing...How would you pay the top earners in the game at least the same or more, than they would of earned ppv.?
Havnt we been told that to pay the superstar fighters purses we need the ppv model? I don't see how that can be matched at a 10$ subs

 

100%. The truly sad thing is that you have UK-based posters on the General forum wanking over the Canelo-DAZN deal when they can’t legally access DAZN anyway. The only people benefiting from DAZN are the Americans and whoever else has access to it. While they get Canelo and Joshua for a subscription fee which gives them pretty much a card of boxing a week, UK fans have to pay a hefty Sky subscription for Matchroom and very rare international cards and then have to pay £20 on top of that subscription in order to see Joshua and even the likes of Whyte and Bellew. Yet they are wanking over DAZN! Truly baffling!

 

Joshua and Eddie have a deal with Sky that still has several years to run. Keep deluding yourself but UK fans will continue to get shafted while Americans can use DAZN.

 

Like any online business the profitability is directly related to scale. Achieve scale and the model works well. Fail to do so, or fail to do it before the money runs out and your left with a big loss.

DAZN have deep pockets, which is the first requirement. They are operating in several markets which means they start to unlock economies of scale and transferable assets. They are now in an acquisition phase in the US which will likely be the most costly they will ever attempt.

The Canelo deal looks eye watering, but if he and GBP brings in the Latin American audience which has proved most loyal to boxing over recent years, then it makes sense. They now have the two biggest boxers in the game, an impressive share of MW and HW, probably the two best known and historically lucrative divisions. They are effectively creating their own content via the Matchroom US venture and they've supplemented it with astute buy ins like WBSS and now GBP.

They are doing a lot right. Not a guarantee of success, but they are impressive.

 

They will reach a deal with the UK cable broadcasters (BT and Sky) to include Daz in their subscription. The mug Sky snd BT customers will be able to access Dazn along with their Sky/BT content while the rest of us can access Dazn only content via the app. This is how they have negotiated deals in Germany and Italy. I would imagine the Matchroom shows and PL will be ''unavailable to UK viewers" or something similar.

 

Interesting, wouldn't be too surprised to see this happen.

 

I wonder if in time the DAZN fee has an effect on PPV sales over here, fans might quite rightly begin to realize that they're paying £20 quid (27 dollars ?) plus for many the Sky Sports/BT regular fee while outside the UK they're paying 10 dollars (£7 ?) for the same cards.

Not a great deal.

 

What channel is showing world super series season 2 in the UK and Ireland??

 

Firstly this isn't a thread to bash Frank Warren or his shows.

A point which I haven't seen mentioned on this forum yet is that you can only buy Frampton/Warrington if you have access to the BT channels.

I don't have a TV and do everything through my Mac. In this day and age where Netflix and Prime dominate I would expect there to be a fair amount of people who do the same.

Since Joshua vs Whyte I've been ordering all my Sky PPV's through their stand alone web app which I am able to do without a Sky Sports subscription.

BT does not have this service, so I couldn't even pay for a BT PPV even if I wanted to. I'm sure I'm not the only person in this situation, BT just isn't with the times. This isn't even taking into account the fact that Sky is a more popular platform so will do lower numbers regardless.

Thoughts?

 

So you can only get there ppvs if you already have subscribed to bt sports?

Will it be the same for Wilder/Fury fight? No way am i paying however much it is for BT sports a month and a ppv price...thats crazy.

 

So poor from BT it's almost like they want to fail.

 

No its a separate channel, you can pay to watch just the fight on the TV channel. Not sure about other platforms

 

You have to have access to the BT channels somehow, whether that be through BT, Sky or Virgin. Because I don't have a TV I am unable to watch BT sports at all including box office PPV's. With Sky you are still able to watch PPV's without any sort of subscription at all, which is not the case with BT.

I've edited my original post to make it more clear

 

I know what you're saying and they need to improve that side.
Most people have tvs though